This post is also available in: SpanishIn Malmö’s Grand Square, on Palestine Day, emotion and courage took the shape of textiles, dolls, banners, and words. The birth of the collective and the urgency of the gesture“We are a group of Latin American, Palestinian, and Swedish women who came together in August last year. That’s how the collective Women Who Embroider for Peace was born.”Bélgica’s initial gesture was the first seed of an interdisciplinary community: women who embroider, think, resist, and weave memory. Some dolls feature intentionally broken, amputated, or wounded figures: “We have made mutilated dolls—like so many in Gaza are mutilated, including children. We shared vital information about the movement for Palestine, and everyone was very kind and stood in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza.